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a second interesting abortion case goes like this: obese married lady of the age where you expect the onset of menopause. so she wasn't at all surprised when her menses disappeared for 7 months. she was quite surprised to find herself pregnant. at this point it's a more/less viable baby and no longer a fetus. so it can't be legally aborted. tests show the baby has genetic defects. which explains why she didn't notice it kicking. and is likely to need huge amounts of care for the entirety of its life. which would mean consume the limited resources the family was planning to use on their other two middle school aged kids. ouch. they would have legally aborted the fetus if they had known. but they didn't. they could birth the kid and turn it over to the state. but they may be ordered by the courts to pay for its upkeep. which puts them right back in the same bogmire. not sure which route is morally superior. murder one kid to enhance the survival of the others. or pass the burden on to someone else. they allegedly chose C) buy miscarriage inducing drugs over the internet. and dispose of the baby's corpse. they are of course, not cooperating with the police to find the body. cause an autopsy might provide evidence of a murder. which would be a travesty. people should not be punished for making a bad decision when there are no good decisions that can be made.